Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd. et al v. Wikileaks et al, No. 3:2008cv00824 - Document 49 (N.D. Cal. 2008)
Court Description: ORDER GRANTING AMENDED TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER AND ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE RE: PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION. Signed by Judge Jeffrey S. White on 2/15/08. (jjo, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 2/15/2008)
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Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd. et al v. Wikileaks et al Doc. 49 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION BANK JULIUS BAER & CO. LTD, a Swiss entity; and JULIUS 12 BAER BANK AND TRUST CO. LTD, a Cayman Islands entity, 11 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 ) ) ) ) ) Plaintiffs, ) ) v. ) ) WIKILEAKS, an entity of unknown ) form, WIKILEAKS.ORG, an entity ) of unknown form; DYNADOT, ) LLC, a California limited liability ) corporation, and DOES 1 through ) 10, inclusive, ) ) Defendants. ) ) ) CASE NO. CV08-0824 JSW [Hon. Jeffrey S. White] [PROPOSED] AMENDED TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER AND ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE RE PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION 21 22 23 24 25 26 /// /// 27 /// /// 28 /// /// 4405-2\PLE\PROP-ORD-TRO 021408 CV08-0824 JSW 1 [PROP] AMENDED TRO & OSC RE PRELIM. INJUNCTION Dockets.Justia.com 1 2 TO DEFENDANTS WIKILEAKS, WIKILEAKS.ORG, DYNADOT, LLC, AND THEIR RESPECTIVE ATTORNEYS OF RECORD: 3 This matter having come before the Court on Plaintiffs BANK JULIUS BAER 4 & CO. LTD’s and JULIUS BAER BANK AND TRUST CO. LTD’s (collectively 5 herein,“Julius Baer” and/or “Plaintiffs”) ex parte application for temporary 6 restraining order and order to show cause re preliminary injunction (“Application”) 7 against Defendants WIKILEAKS, WIKILEAKS.ORG, DYNADOT, LLC and 8 DOES 1-10; 9 And, the Court having considered the Complaint, the declarations and 10 memorandum of points and authorities presented by Plaintiffs in support of the 11 Application, and any other papers, evidence or arguments presented by the parties 12 in connection with Plaintiffs’ Application; 13 And, the Court having found that good cause exists therefor, and Plaintiffs 14 having shown that immediate harm will result to Plaintiffs in the absence of the 15 requested relief, 16 IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT: 17 1. DEFENDANTS WIKILEAKS and WIKILEAKS.ORG and DOES 1-10 18 (collectively the “Wikileaks Defendants”), and all of their respective officers, 19 directors, stockholders, owners, registrants, web host providers, DNS hosts, service 20 providers, website site developers, website operators, website server providers, 21 agents, servants, employees, representatives and attorneys, and all those in active 22 concert or participation with the Wikileaks Defendants, and each of them, and all 23 others who receive notice of this order, are, pending hearing on this Court’s below- 24 issued Order to Show Cause, hereby ordered, enjoined and restrained as follows: (a) 25 RESTRAINED and ENJOINED from displaying, posting, 26 publishing, distributing, linking to and/or otherwise providing any information for 27 the access or other dissemination of copies of and/or images of the JB Property (as 28 defined herein below) and any information or data contained therein, including on 4405-2\PLE\PROP-ORD-TRO 021408 CV08-0824 JSW 2 [PROP] AMENDED TRO & OSC RE PRELIM. INJUNCTION 1 the websites operated at wikileaks.org, wikileaks.org.au, wikileaks.org.uk, 2 wikileaks.la, wikileaks.cn, wikileaks.in, wikileaks.org.nz (collectively the 3 “Wikileaks Websites”), and any other websites under their ownership, control 4 and/or which they can post or edit any content; (b) 5 RESTRAINED and ENJOINED from any current and any further 6 use, display, post, publication, distribution, linking to and/or otherwise providing 7 any information for the access or other dissemination of copies of and/or images of 8 the JB Property and any information or data contained therein, including on the 9 Wikileaks websites and any other websites under their ownership, control and/or 10 which they can post or edit any content; (c) 11 ORDERED to immediately block and otherwise prevent any 12 current and any further use, display, posting, publication, distribution, linking to 13 and/or other dissemination of copies of and/or images of the JB Property and any 14 other new or additional yet unpublished documents and data that constitute or could 15 reasonably be known to be or considered to constitute JB Property, pending further 16 order of this Court; (d) 17 ORDERED to immediately remove from their Wikileaks 18 Websites, including but not limited to wikileaks.org website, and any other websites 19 owned or operated by the Wikileaks Defendants or within their control, any and all 20 copies of and/or images of the JB Property and any information or data contained 21 therein; (e) 22 ORDERED to immediately give notice of this Order to all of the 23 Wikileaks Defendants’ DNS host service providers, ISP’s, domain registrars, 24 website site developers, website operators, website host service providers, and 25 administrative and technical domain contacts, and anyone else responsible or with 26 access to modify the website, and that they are to cease and desist from any current 27 and any further use, display, posting, publication, distribution, linking to and/or 28 other dissemination of copies of and/or images of the JB Property and any 4405-2\PLE\PROP-ORD-TRO 021408 CV08-0824 JSW 3 [PROP] AMENDED TRO & OSC RE PRELIM. INJUNCTION 1 information contained therein pending further order of this Court; (f) 2 ORDERED to submit proof to the Court, under penalty of 3 perjury, that all JB Property has been removed from the Wikileaks Websites and any 4 and all links or information for access thereof; (g) 5 ORDERED that the Wikileaks Defendants are to immediately 6 provide Plaintiffs’ counsel with the name, address, telephone number, and facsimile 7 transmission number for all of their DNS hosting services, ISP’s, domain registrars, 8 website site developers, website operators and website host service providers, so 9 Plaintiffs can provide such persons/entities with notice of this Order at Plaintiffs’ 10 election. 11 2. “JB Property” Defined: JB Property includes any and all documents 12 and information originating from Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd’s and Julius Baer Bank 13 and Trust Co. Ltd’s banks and affiliated bank branches, which are internal non- 14 public company documents and/or which contains private client or customer bank 15 records and/or identifies client or customer names, data, account records and/or 16 bank account numbers, whether or not such documents and information are 17 authentic, semi-altered, semi-fraudulent or forged, and which appears to have 18 originated from or could reasonably be known to be or considered to constitute or 19 have originated from data and documents stolen or misappropriated from one or 20 more of Plaintiff’s bank branches and/or computers. For example, but is not limited 21 to, the JB Property posted on or made available through the Wikileaks Websites that 22 is subject to this Order and enjoined from further use, display, post, publication, 23 distribution, linking to and/or other dissemination, is listed and set forth on the 24 attached Exhibit “A”. 25 3. Defendants are hereby ORDERED TO SHOW CAUSE and to appear 26 before this Court in Courtroom 2 (17th Floor), located at 450 Golden Gate Ave., San 27 9 00 a_.m., or as soon thereafter as this matter may Francisco, California 94102, at __:__ 28 be heard on February ___, 2008, then and there to show cause (the “OSC 29 4405-2\PLE\PROP-ORD-TRO 021408 CV08-0824 JSW 4 [PROP] AMENDED TRO & OSC RE PRELIM. INJUNCTION 1 Hearing”), if any, that the Wikileaks Defendants, and each of them, and their 2 respective officers, directors, stockholders, owners, subsidiaries, agents, servants, 3 employees and attorneys and all those in active concert or participation with the 4 Wikileaks Defendants or them, and each of them, while pending the determination 5 of this action and further Order of this Court, why a preliminary injunction should 6 not issue continuing the above Temporary Restraining Order. EFFECTIVE DATE/TIME 7 8 The above Temporary Restraining Order is effective immediately upon 9 issuance; and Plaintiffs’ are ordered to file an undertaking within five-business days 10 0 in the sum of $___________ Dollars. SERVICE OF PROCESS 11 12 13 A copy of this Order shall be served upon the Defendants via email by not later than _____________, 2008. February 15 14 15 February 20 p Any Opposition papers shall be served and filed by 12 __:00 __.m. on ________, 16 2008, and any Reply papers shall be filed and served via any of the same listed 17 February 26 p means by 12 __:00 __.m. on _____________, 2008. 18 19 20 IT IS SO ORDERED. 21 22 February 15 2008 Dated: __________, 23 ____________________________________ HON. JEFFREY S. WHITE UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 24 25 26 27 28 4405-2\PLE\PROP-ORD-TRO 021408 CV08-0824 JSW 5 [PROP] AMENDED TRO & OSC RE PRELIM. INJUNCTION EXHIBIT “A” 1 2 3 The following is an identifying list of certain of the JB Property which was 4 posted on or made available through the wikileaks.org website and which is subject 5 to the Court’s Order and enjoined from further use, display, post, publication, 6 distribution, linking to and/or other dissemination: 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 1.) Document title: BJB_-_Roberto_de_Andrade_-_Gaynor_Jaguar_Angel_Yara_Trusts URL Link: http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/BJB_-_Roberto_de_Andrade_-_Gaynor_J aguar_Angel_Yara_Trusts File Name: bjb-andrade.zip Wikileaks File Identity No: SHA256 39010e85348a18b7cd091d3dc7b94ffdea076203a08df0d93822a486416b2e 3e Wikileaks Release Date: 2008-01-18 2.) Document title: BJB_-_Luis_Nozaleda_-_Blanca_R_avena_-_Madrid_-_USD_18_mil URL Link: http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/BJB_-_Luis_Nozaleda_-_Blanca_R_avena _-_Madrid_-_USD_18_mil 18 File Name: bjb-luis-avenvas.zip 19 Wikileaks File Identity No: SHA256 eac16b8eb17f21e6cfa496dff61aea1d11bd223739e6f093fb9411df4603cb51 Wikileaks Release Date: 2008-01-18 16 17 20 21 22 3.) Document title: BJB_-_Juan_Carlos_Cespedes_-_SF_holdings_-_11_mil URL Link: http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/BJB_-_Juan_Carlos_Cespedes_-_SF_hold ings_-_11_mil File Name: bjb-peru.zip 26 Wikileaks File Identity No: SHA256 ffac47f723724cf36a1f8a015ea81648e70806225fce5af0c182fde6c3480a71 27 Wikileaks Release Date: 2008-01-18 23 24 25 28 4405-2\PLE\PROP-ORD-TRO 012908 6 EXHIBIT “A” [PROP] TRO & OSC RE PRELIM. INJ. 1 4.) 2 Document title: BJB_-_Mr._Lewis_-_George_Charles_Lampitt_-_tax_avoidence_-_Caym an_-_5_mil 3 URL Link: http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/BJB_-_Mr._Lewis_-_George_Charles_La mpitt_-_tax_avoidence_-_Cayman_-_5_mil File Name: bjb-lewis2.zip 6 Wikileaks File Identity No: SHA256 cccdc8fd8e24721470f28b3f25f89a69bbf85999dff354cabeb87571bfe5d4e3 7 Wikileaks Release Date: 2008-01-17 4 5 8 9 5.) Document title: BJB_-_Mr._Lewis_-_George_Charles_Lampitt_-_confusion_of_beneficia ry URL Link: http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/BJB_-_Mr._Lewis_-_George_Charles_La mpitt_-_confusion_of_beneficiary 12 File Name: bjb-lewis1.zip 13 Wikileaks File Identity No: SHA256 e41b7eada762d35555b0493e1fe36235cf3f97d06382479d233140e212f057 0c Wikileaks Release Date: 2008-01-17 10 11 14 15 16 6.) 17 Document title: BJB_-_Heinri_Steinberger,_Frankfurt_Steuerbetrug_EUR_15_mil 18 URL Link: http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/BJB_-_Heinri_Steinberger,_Frankfurt_St euerbetrug_EUR_15_mil 19 File Name: bjb-heinri-steinberger.zip 20 Wikileaks File Identity No: SHA256 51dbed21a2072f3e68c6093c2e08a7e506d0136fba82209eb230dabe32bc51 e0 Wikileaks Release Date: 2008-01-13 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 7.) Document title: BJB_-_Vigier_Fintex_-_tax_evasion_Cayman URL Link: http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/BJB_-_Vigier_Fintex_-_tax_evasion_Cay man File Name: schwarze-kasse.zip 28 4405-2\PLE\PROP-ORD-TRO 012908 7 EXHIBIT “A” [PROP] TRO & OSC RE PRELIM. INJ. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Wikileaks File Identity No: SHA256 2409a1953291e9eeec33af0cc949688bf44b3007e2ee77e4ab13496b3b6fb5 65 Wikileaks Release Date: 2008-01-09 8.) Document title: BJB_-_JK_Peng_-_Dragon_Trust_-_Cayman_hidden_money URL Link: http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/BJB_-_JK_Peng_-_Dragon_Trust_-_Cay man_hidden_money File Name: jk-peng.zip Wikileaks File Identity No: SHA256 f571984e852292cd3cdff4eba2c0a8e4684045440a28fd6dfd700a20f6f4e9b 9 Wikileaks Release Date: 2008-01-09 7 8 9 10 11 12 9.) Document title: BJB_-_Swisspartner_Offshore_Tax_Scheme_-_USD_150_mil URL Link: http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/BJB_-_Swisspartner_Offshore_Tax_Sche me_-_USD_150_mil 15 File Name: bjb-swisspartner-tax-scheme.xls 16 Wikileaks File Identity No: SHA256 c678a68c006f27651c363ae55c133cfcd3127f99bcea12a4212a63178719df4 1 Wikileaks Release Date: 2008-01-13 13 14 17 18 19 20 10.) Document title: BJB_-_Greek_shipowners_Anna_Kanellakis_Alpha_Tankers_-_USD_30_ mil_per_year URL Link: http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/BJB_-_Greek_shipowners_Anna_Kanella kis_Alpha_Tankers_-_USD_30_mil_per_year 23 File Name: bjb-alpha-tankers.zip 24 Wikileaks File Identity No: SHA256 375ebe8f8249c23a32290c6a424680df39f677707d5a449927f15f5a34c6408 c Wikileaks Release Date: 2008-01-13 21 22 25 26 27 /// 28 4405-2\PLE\PROP-ORD-TRO 012908 8 EXHIBIT “A” [PROP] TRO & OSC RE PRELIM. INJ. 1 11.) Document title: BJB_-_Steuerbetrug_Juergen_Grossmann_Architekt_-_EUR_25_mil URL Link: http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/BJB_-_Steuerbetrug_Juergen_Grossmann _Architekt_-_EUR_25_mil 4 File Name: bjb-juergen-grossmann.zip 5 Wikileaks File Identity No: SHA256 bee41d33756939188dfccbaf5eb824b218225f55ebf91067150d4362b5f306 dc Wikileaks Release Date: 2008-01-13 2 3 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 12.) Document title: BJB_-_Winston_Layne,_New_York_-_USD_10_mil_tax_fraud URL Link: http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/BJB_-_Winston_Layne,_New_York_-_U SD_10_mil_tax_fraud File Name: bjb-winston-layne.zip Wikileaks File Identity No: SHA256 bac726339b1423535ac0bb6336312669d139230e3b089e3533204fc185e77 855 Wikileaks Release Date: 2008-01-13 13.) Document title: BJB_-_Lord_L._Kadoorie_-_China_Light_and_Power URL Link: http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/BJB_-_Lord_L._Kadoorie_-_China_Light _and_Power File Name: bjb-lord-kadoorie.zip Wikileaks File Identity No: SHA256 59cc8c9575a07e1928bc4117059d6e74be404c75b666c9dbbdf2c094e45f1c 69 Wikileaks Release Date: 2008-01-13 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 14.) Document title: Julius_Baer_to_Angela_Merkel Description: Forged Letter to Angela Merkel from Bank Julius Baer, dated 12 Sept 2007 URL Link: http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Julius_Baer_to_Angela_Merkel File Name: angela-merkel.pdf 25 26 27 28 4405-2\PLE\PROP-ORD-TRO 012908 9 EXHIBIT “A” [PROP] TRO & OSC RE PRELIM. INJ. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Wikileaks File Identity No: SHA256 5f201de05f3d8eb32c0a961402be4324b05cea803d58382c0ca814e85dee34 ab Wikileaks Release Date: 2007-11-26 /// /// /// /// /// /// 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 4405-2\PLE\PROP-ORD-TRO 012908 10 EXHIBIT “A” [PROP] TRO & OSC RE PRELIM. INJ.
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